The absolute key was having a person move the microphone around and NEVER handing it over to a journalist. And to have a large distance between them and the podium. So they can't just start shouting questions out of turn or rudely interrupt the answer.
It was such a huge difference to previous events it was really shocking that they couldn't shout and howl in the middle of an answer.
added link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4TCQ5vBfQ
Moar lync pwease
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG4TCQ5vBfQ
1:24:00 him talking about the Biden Sanders platform. They want crazy things! Oh my.